Case Study The Water Quality Of U-High Creek

The purpose of this paper is focus on the municipal water issues in Canada, especially the main factors to affect water quality in Canada. Although there is a common perception that Canada has the second water quality and water quantity in the world, Canadians are among the highest water user per capital by comparing with other countries. Furthermore, clean water is essential to life and our health, so federal government plays an important role to make sure our water suppliers are safe in Canada.

Factual information is presented about the serious water quality and health risk the Ohio State Park of Buckeye Lake holds. Many warnings have stretched across the news about the astonishing weak dam and the toxic algae issue. There are causes of water pollution which require more solutions. As for the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Ohio EPA, and the Licking County’s MS4 program pull together for an awareness of Buckeye Lake. Once known as “Central Ohio’s Summering Place”, and famous for the entertainment and the beyond beauty of the lake, now is the shameful place the community wishes to look past. As these issues have caused much trouble, we can only prevent for what is to come in the future.

During lab on Monday, April 9, 2002 our class conducted a lab on water chemistry and pollution. The two bodies of water that were choose as samples where, the Wall pond and the HGTC pond. Each group had to test the water for Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen, Nitrate, Phosphate, pH, and Turbidity. Only two people where chosen to test the waters for Coliform bacteria. “Coliform bacteria are not pathogenic (disease causing) organisms, and are only mildly infectious. For this reason these bacteria are relatively safe to work with in the laboratory”. (Wilkes, 2001) This experiment is closely related to the study of science because it is a direct study of the environment. “The World Heath Organization estimates that 80 percent of

Research Question: How can the abiotic factors of a watershed such as acidity and turbidity indicate the health of Yellow Creek?

There were 487 macroinvertebrates that were found in total at the creek. 308 were pollution sensitive, 101 were somewhat pollution tolerant, and 78 were pollution tolerant. This is one indicator that the creek is less polluted because the more

The topic that was chosen was turbidity. Turbidity is the pollution in water. Turbidity is commonly associated with cloudiness or haziness in water. The pollution that studied was dirt and how it affected fish. It is important because it is killing our wildlife. There needs to get teams of people each month going out and cleaning up the water. If the dirt in the water affected the fish then the experimental group would die. During the time of researching this topic, it was discovered how different this world has changed, the types of creatures have been affected by pollution.

FAO (1992) noted that the adulteration of water supplies from both natural and anthropogenic sources has impacted on the health and economic status of populations. Human activities contribute to pollutants such as heavy metals, pesticides and herbicides into aquatic ecosystems. These anthropogenic activities continuously increase the amounts in the environment. According to Malik et al. (2010), heavy metal pollution is burgeoning at an frightening rate and has become an important worldwide problem Increase in population, urbanization, industrialization and agricultural practices as well as lack of environmental regulations have further aggravated the situation (Gupta et al., 2009).

In previous studies, studying the chemistry and the types of macro invertebrates that live in a pond or stream can indicate how clean the water is; according to the North Carolina State university water quality group, stoneflies like water rich in dissolved oxygen, cold in temperature and flowing through rocks (Osmond watersheds page 1). In this lab, we went to two streams, cherry creek and bear creek. We took physical Measurements like the width, depth, description of substrate and the site. This was done for the upper, middle, and lower transect. and chemical measurements of the streams like measuring pH, temperature, phosphate, nitrite, nitrate, ammonia, dissolved O2, and dissolved solids. We also counted the macro invertebrates we found and then we Identified the ones we found. With the data that we collected, we hope to find out how does the water affect the types of macro invertebrates found in the stream which brings up my hypothesis which is The more dissolved O2 found in the water, we will find bioindicators that indicate clean water. I predict if there is high amounts of O2 dissolved, then there will be presence of bio indicators that only live in clean water. Our variables are water quality as our independent and our dependent is the macro invertebrates.

It is a well-known fact that the existence of water is critical to life on Earth. The world has been set up in a way that makes mankind heavily dependent on water for cultivation, sanitation, transportation, and most importantly, survival. However, over the last two centuries, while revolutionary technologies and discoveries have raised the overall standard of living, water quality has deteriorated significantly. The United Nations (UN) estimate that the amount of waste-water produced annually is six times more than the water that exists in all the rivers of the world combined (UNWWAP, 2003). Unregulated discharge of organic chemicals from ranging from fertilizers and pharmaceuticals to personal health-care products have played a huge role in the current situation regarding water quality. If this downward trend continues, the immediate and distant future of the human race will be in jeopardy. Clean drinking water will become an expensive commodity, skin-related diseases will grow exponentially, and the destruction of aquatic life will trigger an unstable transformation in the food chain. While technological innovations have tried to address this problem, the lack of repercussions for pursuing personal interests for everyone ranging from farmers to a skin-care product-users has allowed the situation to worsen. The only permanent solution to this problem is to strictly regulate the contents of the products that eventually find their way back into the water stream, as well as

Water is a basic need and survival source that is essential to any living organism. The quality of water is a vital source to the environment in which both society and the natural environment depend on. Monitoring the water quality is tested and done regularly in regards to maintain a constant, safe, and reliable source. A knowledgeable approach to regulate and discover specific problems are done through testing. It is significantly important to test the quality of water for intended purposes, may it be irrigation, drinking water, or

Nowadays, it is widely believed that the quality of groundwater is just as vital as its quantity. Water misses its quality due to its passage from upstream to downstream and from recharge to discharge zones. Moreover, temporal changes in the origin and constitution of the recharged water, hydrologic events and anthropogenic activities, may cause periodic changes in groundwater quality (Vasanthavigar et al., 2010).

Water hardness is typically known as the amount of minerals present in an aqueous solution. It specifically looks at the amounts of dissolved calcium and magnesium in the water. Hard water generally has high levels of dissolved minerals whilst soft water has low levels.

On April 25, 2014 corrosive water was drawn from a local river and pumped into the water mains of Flint, Michigan. The grim financial affairs of the post-industrial city prompted the decision to switch the water supply from the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) to the local Flint River. The city’s water contract with the DWSD was set to expire in 2014 (Kennedy, 2016). The temporary water transfer was meant to save the city money, while a new water line to Lake Huron was under construction (Ganim & Tran, 2016). In 2013, the transfer decision was made by the Flint City Council (FCC) and state-appointed emergency manager Ed Kurtz (Fonger, 2015). Flint officials hired the Texas-based firm Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam Inc. (LAN) to

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Assessment of Water Quality in relation to some Physico-chemical parameters in Araga pond of Thirthahalli Taluk, Shivamogga, Karnataka.